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Philips Shows Product Concepts Designed with UsersDutch Philips Electronics unveiled innovative product ideas that emerged from its design laboratories in collaboration with consumers seeking friendlier high technology gadgets.
Elements of these concepts could appear in products on store shelves as early as this year, Europe's top consumer electronics group said.
The ideas, all based on available technology, are aimed at making gadgets easier to use and share among various types of users.
For instance, "we believe the interactive television we see today is based on the wrong model," said Anton Andrews, creative director of Philips' Intuitive Connected Home design research project.
"It's built on the idea of an individual doing things on a TV he or she would otherwise do on a computer."
Philips showed how music buffs could use a standard TV remote control to manage a song library projected as a cluster of stars.
The remote automatically creates playlists by choosing one track, and transfers tracks to a portable device with a swipe over the TV.
Friends can share songs by keeping devices close together, and play tracks in sync on separate portable devices.
In another concept, a photo album is managed on a TV set, again by remote control.
New images are shown by swiping a cell phone containing a picture album over the TV.
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